![EYE CATCHING: Crusoe College Aboriginal murals were prepared for NAIDOC week. Art teacher Kate Lee (left) and artist Toni McLaughlin with her design.
Picture: Glenn Daniels.
EYE CATCHING: Crusoe College Aboriginal murals were prepared for NAIDOC week. Art teacher Kate Lee (left) and artist Toni McLaughlin with her design.
Picture: Glenn Daniels.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/kmSStX3jRqjRVcke8uh8qE/d130abf8-decf-4551-8e78-51888f169673.JPG/r0_0_4824_3150_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
A flag raising ceremony will officially launch NAIDOC week in Bendigo.
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NAIDOC, or the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians.
The event, running from July 2-9, will be officially launched at Bendigo library gardens on Monday July 3, with the flying of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander flag.
Each NAIDOC week has a unique theme – this year it is ‘Our Languages Matter’.
The 2017 theme aims to celebrate the essential role that Indigenous languages play in both cultural identity, linking people to their land and water, and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history.
The National NAIDOC Committee encourages all Australians to embrace the 2017 National NAIDOC theme.